Cami > Cami's Quotes

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“So the greatest source of happiness is other people--and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West